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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



PRICE. 20 CENTS. 




By Rev. Wallace R. Struble. 



A 



JAB 



AT 



THE DEVIL 



AN ARGUMENT FOR 



A CHRISTIAN POLITICAL PARTY 



REV. WAIvIvACE R. STRUBLE 

(Evangelist) 



COLON, MICH. V 
THE EXPRESS 
1S95 







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Copyright, 1895 

By WAI.LACE R. Struble 

Colon, Mich. 



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SOME OF THE JABS. 

A HufFj Preacher 12 

A New Political Part.v - - - - - 8 

A Political Eunuch 17 

A Racket Needed - ~ > . . . iq 

Bangr! - - ----- 16 

BeelzebuVs Fleas - - - - • . - 15 

National Christian Ticket - - - - 11 

Picture of a Fool 14 

The American Duke ----- 22 

The Foolest Fool 21 

The Goats - - - - - - - 20 

The Old Soldier - - - . . -is 

The Political Devil 15 

The Spineless Ang-el - - - - - 12 

Volleyinof an Ass 17 



A TWANG OF THE BOWSTRING 



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j'T^jHIS THING is called "A Jab at the Devil." Its title 
i I J does not necessarily narrow its target. All whose 
t^^^*-*^* noses are ringed with the Devil's hooks will be fair 
game for impalement. The arrows are pointed but not 
poisonous. They will wound but not kill. The Devil 
cannot be slain ; if it were not so 1 think God would have 
coffined him long ago. The same is true of the Devil's 
votaries. This "Jab" will therefore not be fatal to Satan or 
Satan's, but it may twinge a recalcitrant christian and 
repent him out of bad company. Hence 



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[OMEBODY must run this country politically. The 
Devil and the politicians will run it if we permit 
them. They have run it considerably heretofore, 
and they are getting ready to run it some more. If De- 
cency wants any part in the management of public affairs, 
it is high time she got out of bed and washed her face. 

Under the republican form of government as exempli- 
fied in the United States of America the office-holder is in- 
tended to be the incarnation of his constituents ; 
The or in other words the people send themselves to 

Theory the White House, to congress, to the legislature 
OF IT. and to the judicial bench. In a similar sense 1 
am in favor of sending Jesus the Christ to our 
halls of national legislation, to the White House, and to 
the bench of the United States Supreme court. I am in 
favor of sending Him to the States' legislatures, to the 
municipal councils and boards of aldermen ; of electing 
Him governor, mayor, state and county judge, attorney 
general. States' attorney and corporation lawyer; of 



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naming him for sheriff, constable, chief of police and po- 
lice officer ; in a word, of transferring this entire govern- 
ment, from the supervision of a township road or the 
scribing of a notarial folio, up to the executive manage- 
ment of the nation and the supreme direction of its 
judiciary, upon the shoulders of The Man of Gallilee. 

I would accomplish this end by delegated representation, 
in accordance with the genius of the American 
constitution ; 1 would organize A Christian A New 
Political Party, hold christian political con- Political 
ventions, nominate christian men for office, and Party. 
on ballot day elect them to the positions of polit- 
cal trust for which they were named ; not leaving the 
matter there either, but, by advice and watchfulness, so 
keep in touch with the public servants that they will realize 
the necessity for constant vigilance and integrity. 

But would not this be a union of Church and State ? If 
you mean a union of ecclesiastical bigotry and political 
selfishness, of ambitious priests and designing politicians, 1 
answer. No ; but if you mean a union of righteousness and 
statesmanship, of Godliness and good government, of 
prayer and patriotism, then I reply emphatically. Yes. 

We have done a good deal of drooling about Church 
and State. With the object lessons of priest- 
ridden Europe before us we have hallooed to Time 
the sentiment, "Keep Church and State for- to Wipe our 
ever separate," until our eyes actually bug-out Mentum. 
in idiocy. We have been watching Rome and 
the Jesuits and ecclesiastical bigotry and have let the Devil 
come in and seduce the State. We chose the wrong watch- 



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word. We should have said, "Keep Satan and State for- 
ever separate/' There is a blacker devil than the (so- 
called) Rome devil, and that is the political devil, who will 
be a saint, sot, deacon or demon if by any or all of these 
means he can get office, which is to say get an opportunity 
to plunder the public treasury and debauch the public virtue. 

" But," some one says, " we have many christians now 
in office in America." I beg your pardon. We have 
democrats and republicans and other partisans. As a rule, 
when the partisan christian obtains office of the party in 
power, he leaves his religion in the church vestry or hangs 
it in the closet with his Sunday suit ; he is evidently afraid 
it will gti wet, or torn, or soiled. Hosts of men take their 
ability to the legislature, but they forget to take their 
Christianity. 

I would have A Christian Party, with a platform of 
principles, and the first plank in that platform should read 
as follows : Work your religion for all there is in it during 
the week and let it keep its eye peeled for the Devil and 
the politicians on Sunday. 






I^Y^IJHE FROFOSITIOX to oroanize and put into active 

operation A Christian Political Party, with the 
avowed object of directing the legislation and the 
machinery of this government, will be regarded at first 
thought by some with amazement, by others with serious- 
ness, and by yet others as a joke of enormous and hilari- 
ous proportions. In presenting the matter, however, the 



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author is intensely in earnest. The idea, with him, while 
ha\ing- its humorous aspects, is neither trivial nor aston- . 
ishing-. He believes in its righteousness with all his heart, 
and hopes for its accomplishment at an early date. In 
view of the manifest rottenness of our political fabric, and 
the increasing rust and mould upon the social liberties of 
the people, he believes the times are ripe for and demand a 
moral political upheaval. 

"But that kind of a proposition, seriously A 

urged, will make a terrible racket in this country." Racket 

Likely enough it will ; and, bless your dear is 

soul, a "racket" is exactly the thing that this Needed. 
country needs— a " racket " that will arouse the 
sleeping conscience of the American free slave and set it 
throbbi ig in vigilant action ; a "racket" that will tear the 
napkin from the dead face of political honor and reveal the 
ghastly work of the assassins of the dominant parties ; a 
"racket" that will rake the Republican and Democratic 
maggots from the festering corpse of national prosperity 
and make manifest the crimes of politicians, drunken 
statesmen and corporations ; a "racket" that will disturb 
the millionaire miser in his gloating, and wring a pang of 
retributive horror from his shriveled, seltlsh soul ; a " racket " 
that will din the ears of tipling deacons and shiver the sides 
of salary-fat parsons with a conscience ague-tit. Oh ! this 
blessed country of ours needs a "racket" of ample and 
alarming and arousing proportions ; one that will resemble 
the excitement of the second coming of Christ ; that will 
evoke pxans of praise from the lips of the righteous and 
drive the guilty into frenzied dialogue with the rocks and 



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'hills. 1 believe the inauouration of The Christian Polit- 



ical Party, with the ensign of 



Righteousness" nailed to 



the masthead, will be the dawning of a brighter era in the 
political and social dconomy of our country. 



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HERE IS a world of difference l)et\v^een puttincj a 
christian man in congress as a republican or a dem- 
^^^^^1 ocrat and putting him there as a christian.* In the 
first-named category he will go there as a partisan politi- 
cian, subject to the dictation of the Piatt, Quay or Croker 
of his party (which means that he will be under marching 
orders of His Majesty, the 



Devil); in the second in- 
stance, he will be an inde- 
pendent integer with a leg- 
islative backbone and a 
brain clear of whisky, who 
will have the nerve and the 
sense to propose and vote 
for measures that are in 
the interest of the people. 
It is not denied that there 
are christian democrats 
and republicans in con- 
gress, but it is doubted if 
any of them have recently 
prayed before they voted. 



*My nominees on The National 
Christian Ticket for the year of 
Our Lord 1896 are as follows : 

National Christian Ticket. 



'* RIGHTEOUSNESS. 



For President, 
A CHRISTIAN, 

For Vice President, 

A CHRISTIAN. 

For United States Senators. 

CHRISTIANS. 

For Representatives in Congress. 

CHRISTIANS. 

"Wouldn't you nominate any inti- 
dels or atheists •:"■ Not one. I would 
appoint them to consulates in Tur- 
key and Darkest Africa, with in- 
structions to argue the religious 
question out with Satan, the Sultan 
and the chimpanzees. 



1 hear some mollusk ask the question : "Do you think 



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it would be policy to bring such a political party before the 
country ? " Some beings are ever concerned regarding the 
policy of a proposition. I can imagine during the consid- 
eration of the question of sending the Son of God to earth 
on His errand of atonement that some spineless angel sim- 
pered out this conundrum : " Dost Thou think it will be 
policy to send Thy Son down there among those wretches ? 
The Devil seems to be running the thing pretty much. He 
has Herod and the Sanhedrim and the High Priest under 
his thumb. The chances are Thy Son will be slain if he 
goes, and nothing will be accomplished. Dost Thou not 
think it will be better policy to compromise somewhat ? — 
say we let Satan run the politics down there (he's such a 
fine wire-puller, Thou knowest),and we'll just send a dele- 
gation of deacons down to sing 
psalms and pray and preach and Here Some 

vote the old party Sanhedrist and Partisan Preacher 
Herodian tickets, and perhaps pass a Will get Hl'FFY. . 
gelatinous resolution occasionally on 
the sin question ? " I can imagine the holy expression of 
the Heavenly Father's face as He relegates that celestial poli- 
tician to the limbo of eternity and thunders forth His edict : 
The kingdoms of the earth shall become the kingdoms of 
the Lord and His Christ. His name shall be called Won- 
derful, Mighty^ Counsellor, Prince of Peace, and the gov- 
ernment shall be upon His shoulders. 

" But Christ defied policy and was crucified for His 
rashness." 

Very true ; but He arose from the dead and ascended 
triumphantly on high. 



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"His followers were put to death, persecuted and im- 
prisoned." 

True, but His cause marches on with widening sweep 
toward the conquest of the world. The Christian Polit- 
ical Party is throbbing in the womb of American pro- 
gress ; its birth will entail the pains of national travail, and 
its propagandism will call for political martyrdom of the 
heroic sort. But I believe that in the glens and thorough- 
fares of America there will not be lacking Polycarps or 
Pauls to face the fagot and the ax in behalf of the eternal 
principles of truth. 



jnnjHE XEED of our government in its legislative, 
t I * executive and judicial departments is applied christi- 
*^Jt^* anity ; the need of our political economy and our 
social economy in their practical workings is applied 
Christianity. Not priestly, parsonic, pulpit Christianity; 
not canting, creed-cramped bigotry ; not the thing of gen- 
uflections and long robes, of solemn visage and sepulcral 
tones, which has labeled itself Christianity and steepled its 
club-room,s with the stolen cross of Christ; this thing 
which sighs and simpers and sings on Sunday, and swears 
and defrauds and debauches on the secular days of the 
week ; which voices with Christ in the prayer-meeting and 
vies with the Devil at the ballot-box ; not that sort— but 
applied Christianity, the Christianity of honesty, of mercy, 
of love ; the Christianity which regards the mite-earners 
and scourges the money-changers, which enraptures Laza- 
rus and engulfs Dives, which commends the penitent pub- 



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lican and impales the proud pharisee ; the Christianity of 
Christ, of Jesus Christ, the God-man of Gallilee. 

Some people look upon Christianity as a sort of conven- 
ient commodity to be obtained when needed of the priestly 
pharmacist ; a kind of spiritual Seidlitz powders to be hur- 
riedly taken when the patient feels like vomiting ; a sort of 
sinners' stomach-settler, to be used, after a night's debauch 
with the Devil, as a preventive against the head- 
ache and hair-pulling of conscience. Others A Few 
regard it as a species ot Sabbath recreation — Seasonable 
to be indulged in after a hard week of cheating. Remarks. 
lying, backbiting and all-round sin, just as an 
overworked artisan would take a day's outing among the 
hills and the woods, only to return again on Monday to the 
old haums and the old pursuits. True Christianity is riot 
to be listed in any of these catalogues ; neither is it to be 
looked upon as a convenient phantom which associates 
itself in particeps criminis with any professional liar who 
announces his possession on Sunday of something that his 
conduct on Monday proves to the contrary. Christianity 
is not a commodity, nor an appetizer, nor a spectre. It is a 
Principle, the chief characteristics of which are love, purity, 
honesty, temperance, loyalty and goodness. It has cleans- 
ing power. It can and will save a repentant sinner from 
his sin, but it will not abide in the same house 
with him if he returns again to his vice. The PICTURE 
man who takes off his swearing clothes on Sat- OF A 

urday, dons his deacon's dickey on Sunday and Fool. 
re-clothes himself with his sinful suit on Monday 
is simply a cheap fool who furnishes matinee amusement 



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for the gallery gods of Hades. The common view of 
Christianity, the view of many people in the humbler walks 
of life, is a misapprehension. Many have been content to 
cheat and be cheated, to lie and be lied to, to backbite and 
be backbitten, with the common understanding that a 
stroke of the absolutional sponge will make a clean slate 
for Sunday and a fair surface for the Devil's sin-scratches 
on Mondav. The terminus of that road is Perdition. 



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JEELZEBUB'S FLEAS do not parasitize on God's 

I lambs. Light and darkness do not abide together. 
> Christ hath no concord with Belial. Hence, Christ- 
ianity in its personal application means that its possessor 
is a christian, and that is as much as to say that he can be 
trusted by both God and man. He may be elected to pub- 
lic office and he will regard it as a sacred trust ; he will not 
backslide when he goes to congress. He may be given the 
custody of houses and estates, and he will not make him- 
self the chief beneficiary of his opportunity. As an em- 
ployer of labor he will not Mottstreet the masses and Fifth- 
avenue himself. 

The world demands one of two things of Christianity— 
that it put its homiletics into practice or yield up the ghost. 



WtHEX YOU arrow the Folitical Devil you puncture 
I the most vindictive imp outside of headquarters. 
^^__^_^__^_^.| He may wear a Presbyterian dress-coat, an Epis- 
copalian gown, or a Methodist business suit, but when he is 



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hit you will see his tail wiggle and hear his hoofs and teeth 
Castanet in symphony. The point of this "Jab" will 
likely enow spear something, and when you hear it howl, 
whether in the republican or democratic language, you may 
conclude that its political epidermis has been knifed, and 
that's what's the matter with that demon. 

I do not mean to charge that a man may not have been 
a christian and been a democrat or a republican, but I pur- 
pose to declare that it is now beyond the pale of possibility 
for any good christian (hearing with his ears, see- 
ing with his eyes and thinking with his brain) to A 
be a good democrat or a good republican. That Sweeping 
is plain talk, is it not ? You may slam this book Charge. 
down at this point and brand its author as a fool 
or a bigot, but that will only be evidence of your unchris- 
tian impatience. Better read it through with care and then 
re-read it and ponder and pray thereover. Remember, 1 
am now particularly addressing the christian ; for 1 do not 
deny that a sinner may with consistency be a good repub- 
lican or a good democrat — in fact 1 am not able to per- 
ceive just how he can truthfully claim to be an expert, fin- 
ished and polished sinner without being a rep. or dem. — 
but ( returning to our christian) 1 declare with all my heart 
that the only possible way for a man to be a good christian 
and a good republican or democrat is to be born with stra- 
bismus of the thinker and softening of the ears and roar- 
ing of the eyes. 

Bang ! 

What was that ? 

C^h ! that was Mr. Methodist McKinley and Mr. Iowa Allison 



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— they have dropped their books and gone out to play see- 
saw with Mr. Maine Reed and Mr. Presbyterian Harrison. 
Returning- to our christian again. 1 am sug- 

Revenons gested by a meek-eyed brother at my elbow that 
A NOS I should make allowance for the weaknesses of 

MOUTONS. men and remember the apostle enjoins us that 
" we have this treasure in earthen vessels." To 
this sapiency I bow acknowledgement, and beg to assure 
my brother that I am competent to distinguish between an 
ass's skin and a clay pot. I promise to be mindful of the 
pottery, but 1 will not cease to volley the ass. 



A'**""*}RGU>1EXTS FOR A Christian Political Party will 
I multiply as we pursue the subject. It will not be 
l^^^^^^J. practicable to consider them all ; and it will be 
noticed as we proceed that every argument for a Christian 
Party is an argument for every christian to leave the ranks 
of the politicians and enlist under the banner of Decency. 
I believe that a political party is impotent and worthless 
unless it stands primarily for morals in government. To 
my mind clean morals and clean politics are natural allies; 
hence a political party without one or more moral ques- 
tions as the foundation and explanation of its existence is 
to my thought a eunuch in the household of progress. 
The issues which gave life to the Republican Party were 
moral issues; they gave to it a force and dignity which no 
dominant American party before or since has ever possessed. 
The fact of its moral virility brought to its support the 
terrific force of the aroused christian conscience of the 



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North ; it gave to it the prayers of sanctified hearts and the 
young hot blood of a hundred thousand christian firesides. 
By this force it conquered in the grandest struggle for the 
rights of man which the world has ever witnessed. And if 
it is enshrined in the hearts of veterans, and mothers, and 
fathers to-day it is because it was the incarna- 
tion of those principles of right for which The 
brother bled with brother and friend died with Grand Old 
friend in the internecine tragedy of '62. It is Party. 
the vitalizing power of the moral principles of 
its youth which has carried the Republican Party in remin- 
iscent grandeur beyond the period of it lawful existence. 
The politician (synonym for the Devil) understands this 
fact; hence he will invariably refer, in his florid appeals to 
the popular ear, to the grandeur, and the glory, and the 
pathos, and the sacrifice of the past. And the old soldier, 
and the old soldier's mother, and the old soldier's wife and 
widow and friends drink in the sirenic strains, and loll and 
simper and sigh in reminiscence, while the hand of God is 
writing a new death-warrant upon the horizon and Satan's 
hosts are entering the citadel of Liberty. Oh ! veterans of 
Gettysburg and Appomattox, heroes of Vicksburg and 
Chattanooga, as I look into your scarred faces (radiant 
with youthful patriotism in '62) and behold now your de- 
votional dotage, your senile worship at the tireless shrine 
of party fetichism, this thought transtlxes me, this question 
travails my soul : — Do you wish us to be driven to the con- 
clusion that you have lived too long .? — and per consequence 
to wish that your graves were occupied ? In the saguinary 
scenes of the past you were not unfamiliar with the com- 



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mand, " Bury the dead, for the battle will be on to-mor- 
row." Issues of moment confront us now. Every live 
soldier who loves God and his fellow men should be in 
line for battle. Let the dead be buried. God beckons to 
more glorious battle-fields. Let not the heroes of '62 be- 
come the mumbling mendicants of '96, with one eye on 
party and the other on the pension bureau — a chattering, 
childish demonstration of how the warriors of one age may 
become the drivillers of the next, — but let them lead, as 
they should, in the conflicts of right against wrong in the 
perillous days that shadow us now. 



MJORAL ISSUES are the sinews of political strength 
I and the pledge of political perpetuity ; conse- 
i^^^J" quently that political party which would present 
an ever-victorious front to the enemies of humanity must 
armor itself with righteousness and inspire its soldiery 
with the love of humanity. 1 believe The Christian Po- 
litical Party will measure up to this requirement; that 
its womb will be versatile in moral conception and its soul 
true in instincts of honesty and mercy. Its conscience will 
be right upon the whisky question, and the narcotic ques- 
tion, and the labor question, and the social question, and 
the kindred tribe of moral questions that jostle for prefer- 
ment. It will have as its basis the eternal axiom of the 
Man of Gallilee: "Therefore, all things whatsoever ye 
would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." 
It can face all problems not upon the basis of expediency 



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or policy, but upon the principle of right, which is the true 
principle of settlement of every question. 

The organization of this party would call for the separa- 
tion of Church and Satan. Upon the side of conscience 
and right should be found every follower of the Lord Jesus 
Christ and every friend of the religion of the Nazarene ; 
and I believe that, the number of such will constitute a ma- 
jority of the suffragists of America. On the 
opposing side will naturally be found the The Goats 
thugs, and the thieves, and the bulldozers, and ON the 

the highwaymen, and the ward strikers, and Left Side. 
the whisky contingent, and the politicians. 
No thief, during his thiefship, will wish to affiliate with a 
party that discounts his worth as a voter and requires hon- 
esty as a qualification of suffrage. No beer vender will 
(until he reforms) wish to train with a crowd that neither 
swallows his swill nor countenances its brewing. 

This party will welcome recruits upon confession of 
faith, but it will thank all who have not genuinely repented 
to march on with the Devil, and the rascals, and the 
politicians. 



0]lT< IHKI8TIAX POLITICAL TARTY proposes 
I warfare not against the rights of men, but 
^^^^^J against the wrongs of men ; it will uphold the 
magna charta of Liberty but overthrow and despoil the 
Satanic forgery of License ; it will guarantee every man in 
the peaceful pursuance of honest, humane occupation, but 



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it will oppose evil-doers by moral suasion, enactment, pros- 
ecution and penalty. 

It will be maintained that the dominant political parties 
exemplify these principles. I answer, that is true in theory, 
but lame in practice ; the dominant political parties are 
long on platform and promises but short on enactment and 
enforcement. No political party, coached and captained 
by politicians, dare administer the statutes against the law- 
less element of its voting strength. It may cajole, or deceive, 
or insult, or outrage its respectable, moral and christian 
constituency (for it knows from experience that the respecta- 
ble, moral and christian fool is the most easily 
The deluded fool in the great fool fraternity), but 

FOOLEST with the bum, and the burglar, and the beer- 
FOOL. man, and the boss it is dilTerent — it knows that 

to seriously statute and to execute these will be 
to harikari itself beyond recovery. The political manager 
may smile with a " smile that is childlike and bland," but 
let nobody on that account pick him up for a fool ; for 
there be two ailments that never affect the party manager, 
viz., softening of the brain and softening of the conscience. 



W>E ARE soon to engage in a national campaign tor 
* the selection of an administration. The pros- 
1^^^^^^ pective contestants are training for the race. The 
issues are the offices; the question at hand is. How to get 
there, Eli, and get there quickly, and get there with both 
feet. The ward strikers are practicing on dumb-bells and 



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bag; the brewer is brewing his campaign bock; the Tivery 
keeper is varnishing the turnout in which he will whirl the 
bishop and the whoremonger, the deacon and the gambler 
side by side to the polls, where, in the interest of "the party,'" 
the priest and the pimp, the bishop and the bum will vote 
in identical harmony. Orators are searching the thesaurus 
of hell for cunning periods for the garnishment of their 
campaign casuistry, while the Devil, with each hand com- 
placently on the heads of the dominant parties, says, '* Bless 
you, my children, bless you," 

Meanwhile the satanic show goes merrily along on the 
American political and social stage. Drunken congress- 
men woo Venus and toast Bacchus in the nation's capitol; 
millionaire senators strut the corridors of congress and covet 
life tenure and nobility;* corporation lawyers misrepresent 
the people and serve their corporate masters in the senate 
chamber; bank presidents direct the financial policy of the 
administration and tap the government for gold-bearing- 
bonds, with millions in commissions as a side-winning. 
The thousands of distilleries, and breweries, and dram-shops 
run night and day under government license, and are hard 
pushed to meet orders for drunkards' souls from the Infer- 
nal Regions; the army of inebriates goes marching on, bury- 
ing 100,000 of its number every year and hailing with 

*" When Secretary Carlisle was in New York several days ago he was 
approached by a Gotham millionaire with the proposition that the gov- 
ernment could raise all the money it needs or is likely to need by estab- 
lishing and selling patents of nobility. The man wasn't joking either. He 
was in dead earnest. He told Mr. Carlisle that he believed there were 
more than one hundred men besides himself who would gladly pay 
*1, 000. (X)0 or more for a title similar to that of Duke in England and the 
privilege of a lifetime seat without pay in an American House of Lords, 
which it is a part of his scheme to estjiblish."— The Express. 



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idiotic laugliter the new recruits who crowd in to replete 
the ranks. The million -voiced shriek of drunkards' moth- 
•ers, and wives, and children pierces the sky of Liberty, 
and echoes back from Freedom's slopes. The narcotic 
carrion typhoids our viales and watercourses, while the 
vulture of obscenity spreads its putrescent pinions and 
darkens the horizon of our youth. The groans of bur- 
dened artisans, and enslaved laborers, and defrauded farm- 
ers surge the air, while penury zeros the temperature, and 
hunger blizzards ten thousand homes. This under the be- 
nign, the fostering influence of the grand old Republican 
Party and the glorious old Democratic Party — co-equally 
the pride of their managers, the politicians, and their mas- 
ter, the Devil 



Jf { RISB TO MOVE in the name of God and humanity: 

i I * in the name of decency and honor ; in the name of 
i^Jj our country and our hearthstones, that we at once 
proceed to hive the Christianity, the conscience, the heart, 
the manhood of this nation into a political party that 
will run " Righteousness " to the masthead, and fight for- 
ever not for place, nor pelf, but for "God, and Home, and 
Native Land." 

The hour has struck for the hosts of Israel to come out 
of Egypt. I call upon every christian of whatever house- 
hold—whether of Rome, or Luther, or Calvin, or Knox, or 
Wesley, or Campbell, or Roger Williams— to march out 
from the bondage of their republican and democratic po- 



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litical taskmasters, through the Red Sea of purpose, and 
front face toward the Promised Land. It may be that 
there will be years of wilderness and wandering. It may 
be that Amalekites and Jebusites will resist. There will 
doubtless be Achans who will harlot with the gold, and the 
silver, and the commerce of greed. But in the end we 
shall see Gibeon, and the Sun of Righteousness will tarry 
in the heavens while the armies of God triumph over 
every foe. 




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